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Does creating a RAM drive in Windows still require third-party software/drivers or is it natively supported by Microsoft these days? I haven't tried to do it si

Does creating a RAM drive in Windows still require third-party software/drivers or is it natively supported by Microsoft these days? I haven't tried to do it since Windows 7 I believe.

pdimitar 7y ago
AFAIK, it still requires 3rd party software. However, having a Samsung SSD and enabling RAPID mode in Samsung Magician (SSD management software) which effectively uses an invisible RAM disk accelerated my games' startup times by a factor of at least 3x. Some games even start 5x times faster. I do recognise that games have a much different workload than compiler jobs of course; but invisibly utilising a RAM disk might help a lot regardless.
NullPrefix 7y ago
That whole Linux integration into Windows marketing campaign could have you believe that Linux things just work on Windows now and you can just "mount -t tmpfs none /path/to/my/mount -o size=64G". I doubt that is going to happen. File system mounts do not run on marketing fuel.
- jrockway 7y ago
  The latest variant of WSL uses a VM. So that will work, but you won't be seeing that mount inside Windows.
  - Dylan16807 7y ago
    Well, you can access it over the \\wsl$ shared drive. But that share can only do about 4k IOps.
the8472 7y ago
> still require third-party software/drivers Back in the 3.1 and 9x days it didn't require 3rd party drivers, thanks to ramdrive.sys